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The Latest Tool in Car Factories: Google Glass

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Jeff Bennett

Aug 5, 2014 3:06 pm ET

General Motors is test driving Google Glass as part of its research into how wearable information technology could help productivity in its sprawling car factories.

The auto maker has three pairs of the high-tech glasses that it has been testing since late last year at its Orion Assembly plant in Lake Orion, Mich., the Warren Technical Center in Warren, Mich., and at information-technology operations around the Detroit area.

“We’re really just experimenting, trying to find different uses for it,” Cathy Clegg, GM’s North America manufacturing president, said Tuesday at an industry conference in Traverse City, Mich. More on this after the jump…